Esteban Fuentes
01/05/2021 19:24
Clarín.com
Rural
Updated 01/05/2021 19:30
Three entities of the Mesa de Enlace
defined to carry out a
cease of the commercialization of grains from Monday, January 11 until Wednesday, 13 inclusive,
in rejection of the closure of corn exports until March
According to the statement, in this specific case, the three entities that defined the
agricultural strike
were the Argentine Rural Confederations, FAA and the SRA.
Coninagro did not adhere.
From the Executive Power they responded to the Liaison Table on Tuesday when it was already known that the field was going to stop, but still without details of the modality.
Surprisingly, it was not the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Basterra, but Gabriel Katopodis, Minister of Public Works.
"I do not know if the word is to confront. They are the tensions of a society, but it is clear that
the Government is not going to move an inch
, it has not done it. It is going to score and it is going to stand up defending the interest of all the Argentines, "he said in statements to El Uncover radio.
"For once, these sectors that have done very well have to think about the interest of the country. The Government has to ensure that and that is what it is going to do, and that is why it made the decision to export corn ", remarked the official.
The
self-convened producers
will also hold their own assemblies.
Before the cessation of commercialization decreed by the Liaison Board was known, they had already decided to carry them out.
The first will be tomorrow in Bell Ville, Córdoba, and the next day, in Pergamino, Buenos Aires.
In addition, on Friday it will be the turn at the intersection of AO12 and Route 34, in the vicinity of Rosario, and on Saturday at the intersection of routes N9 and 178 in Armstrong, Santa Fe.
Other times.
Alberto Fernández had received the Liaison Table in full campaign in 2019.
By
Monday 18, road cuts had already been announced in towns in different provinces
, such as Cruz del Eje, Río Cuarto, San Luis, Villaguay, Tostado, Reconquista, Crespo and Sinsacate.
After the decision to close corn exports for 60 days, criticism from the field multiplied.
From the
Argentine Agroindustrial Council
, an organization that maintained a fluid dialogue with the Government, they requested through a letter to President
Alberto Fernández
that the corn stocks be lifted urgently.
"Closing exports
is the worst way
to contain inflation or provide food security guarantees. We are not going to validate measures of that nature," warned the text signed by the president of the Buenos Aires Cereal Exchange, José Martins, in representation of the 57 entities that make up the Argentine Agroindustrial Council.
"The path
is not one of arbitrary decisions
that ignore the economic and social reality of our country," the letter says.
"Let us not waste the effort of agriculture to be all united with the same objective of having a federal agro-industrial Argentina, inclusive, technological and exporting, which is once again the engine to get us all on our feet," he added.
This conflict occurs in the midst of the
international rise in the price of soybeans
, during the round it exceeded $ 500
,
but at the end of the day it adjusted and closed at $ 496.
However, it remained at the highest level in the last 6 and a half years.
At the local level, in the futures market, soybeans accompanied the rise.
In the May 2021 Position in Matba-Rofex it rose almost 10 dollars reaching 342 dollars per ton while in the available market it exceeded 29,000 pesos per ton.
But beyond these good prices, the producer has less in his pocket for each ton sold since the crop returned to tax 33% of withholdings after the temporary drop for 3 months, so the "soybean dollar", as it is known, it is at 60 pesos.
Corn has also been growing and closed in Chicago at $ 193, reaching the highest price in the last 6 years.
Precisely,
the self-convened producers urge that no one sell less than 19,000 pesos per ton.
In the domestic market, the price should be the FOB Argentine Ports value less freight charges.
On December 29, that price would have been $ 227 per ton, which at the official dollar value (83 pesos) is $ 19,074 pesos per ton.
"What all producers must know is that once corn exports are closed, export duties cease to exist, so buyers should not discount them from the price," they recalled.
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